LIVE | La Palma volcano activity stops, experts confirm

The emission of ash and smoke from the volcano that has been erupting for eight days on the Spanish island of The Palm It ceased shortly after 8.30 am (Canarian local time, 7.30 GMT) this Monday after a night of constant explosions, as EFE observed from the port of Tazacorte.

Experts from the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan) have just confirmed that the volcanic tremor of the eruption of La Pama “Almost disappeared” as well as strombolian explosive activity. Through its twitter account, Involcan confirms what is already seen in the surroundings of the volcano after the ash column that has caused the main cone formed in the area of ​​Cabeza de Vaca, in Cumbre Vieja, disappeared for a week.

The scientific committee of the Canary Islands Volcanic Risk Prevention Plan, Pevolca, is meeting at that time analyzing the situation.

The column of smoke that dispersed ash throughout the island has disappeared and there is hardly any activity in the volcano, although it is not the first time since the beginning of the eruption that these periods of inactivity have occurred.

From the port of Tazacorte, small plumes of smoke can be seen along the course of the main stream that devastated the town of Todoque, which last night was about 1,600 meters from the coastline without reaching the sea.

In these eight days of eruption, other cyclical episodes have already been recorded, alternating highly explosive moments with others of relative calm.

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